![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Corvair in Action, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional film for the controversial Chevrolet Corvair.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 67,742
Average rating:  (26 reviews) |  |
| Great New Star, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dinah Shore promotes the new Chevrolets and sings "See the U.S.A. in your new Chevrolet."
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 37,150
Average rating:  (10 reviews) |  |
| Roads to Romance: Coral Gables - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing, promoting tourism in Coral Gables, Florida. Shows colorful parrots, the University of Miami, and a visit to the beach.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Florida
Downloads: 12,216
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| All in One - Handy (Jam) Organization
Homage to the dog and comparison of canine attributes with Chevrolet features.
Keywords: Animals: Dogs; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 6,785
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |  |
| Roads to Romance: The Santa Cruz Trail and Land of the Giant Cactus - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing, promoting tourism in Arizona.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Arizona
Downloads: 8,396
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Formations - Handy (Jam) Organization
Defensive driving film explaining the importance of awareness of surrounding vehicles.
Keywords: Safety: Driving; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 3,704
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Design for Dreaming - MPO Productions
Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s, showing futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future."
Keywords: Futurism; Automobiles: Advertising; Gender roles
Downloads: 80,509
Average rating: (25 reviews) |  |
| 1955 Chevrolet Screen Ads - Handy (Jam) Organization
Ten short theatrical "screen ads" promoting the 1955 Chevrolet models.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Advertising: Screen ads
Downloads: 80,854
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 4) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: the "Boudoir Express," dressing rooms on wheels in which women can change into swimsuits; Detroit police directing traffic with a "talking safety car"; miniature model planes at the International Air Derby; petroleum geologists X-raying the ground in search for oil; a seagoing, amphibious automobile navigating a lake; and Mickey, the firefighting cat of Minneapolis.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 7,507
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 16,951
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Princess and the Pauper, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Nicky Nome, a spinoff from "A Coach for Cinderella" and hero of this cartoon, rescues a treasure-laden pauper from the Valley of Jewels, taking him to the princess on a magic carpet, which transforms itself into a new Chevrolet. Expresses a caricatured view of Arab people, typical of many cartoons of the time.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Orientalism
Downloads: 25,536
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| In My Merry Oldsmobile - Fleischer Studios
Surprisingly licentious advertising cartoon produced by the Fleischer brothers.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Sexualities
Downloads: 80,218
Average rating: (24 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 4,128
Average rating:  (3 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 3,361
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 4,136
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: a Chevrolet pulling an aquaplane along the beach; an isolated Kentucky village linked to the world by motor cars; alligator wrestling; mobility for the Miami Beach police; and new parking meters in Dallas, Texas.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 3,984
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Peg-Leg Pedro - Handy (Jam) Organization
Chevrolet advertising cartoon in Technicolor on a "Treasure Island" theme.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Pirates
Downloads: 26,377
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 5,969
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 1) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: Miami, Florida police practice shooting at stationary targets from moving cars; Southern youngsters learn safe driving habits while driving in kiddie cars and scooters on miniature streets; Chautauqua Lake ferry uses two automobile engines as motive power.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 4,546
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 3, No. 4) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 3,999
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including the construction of U.S. 1 linking Key West, Florida with the mainland; a Baltimore ceremony awarding large Chevrolet keys to the oldest auto plant employees; a man leading a pony with his Chevrolet; the "Evans Auto-Railer," an automobile that runs down railroad tracks in Jackson, Michigan; old automobile advertising; a travelogue sequence set in St...
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 6,303
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Girl on the Magazine Cover, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
How professional models (and new automobiles) are photographed.
Keywords: Gender roles; Automobiles: Advertising; Media: Photography
Downloads: 17,812
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Coach for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Imaginative cartoon that breaks down the parts and features of a Chevrolet automobile into units that can be understood in terms of plant and animal life: caterpillars roll into circles and become automobile tires; in the "visible V-6" fireflies equal spark plugs and mice provide motive power. Naturally, tells part of the Cinderella story, too. Animation supervisor thought to be Frank Goldman.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Automobiles: Advertising; Folk tales
Downloads: 23,439
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Triumph of America (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Auto manufacturing as an expression (and motivator) of America's economic success.
Keywords: Advertising: General; Automobiles: Advertising; Free enterprise
Downloads: 3,580
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Other Fellow, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Comedian Edgar Kennedy teaches a driving safety lesson.
Keywords: Safety: Automotive; Automobiles: Advertising; Social guidance: Etiquette
Downloads: 7,156
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Over the Waves - Handy (Jam) Organization
How the Chevrolet suspension system smooths out a rough ride.
Keywords: Automobiles: Engineering; Amusement parks; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 4,738
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Tough Friends - Handy (Jam) Organization
How steel and steel alloys make the modern automobile safer and more durable.
Keywords: Metals: Steel; Automobiles: Engineering; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 3,620
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Trail of the Rocket (Part I) - Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
Singers Lucille and Johnny, whose radio show is sponsored by Oldsmobile, are invited to visit the Olds factory to see why the product is superior. While touring the plant, Johnny becomes concerned that another visitor is a Martian spy dedicated to subverting Earth's autonomy. Some might call this film a McCarthyite allegory; others a slow-moving plant tour. Story: Gordon Miller. Camera: John Niklasch...
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Automobiles: Manufacturing; Cold War
Downloads: 5,571
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Olds Minute Movies [Futuramic 1948] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Automobiles: Advertising; Design
Downloads: 16,623
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| All-American Soap Box Derby, The (1936) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Tribute to the American boy as inventor, engineer and sportsman. Shows contestants building their vehicles and the final competition at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Gender roles; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 15,068
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories. Contents include: bathing girls dive from top of Chevrolet automobile; owner of 1913 car trades it in for a new 1936 Chevrolet; Jack Dempsey referees a boys' boxing match; a seven-foot tall giant man inspects the Chevrolet "Turret Top"; a fishing expedition in the Ozark Mountains; a car driven into the water so that fish can swim in and be trapped; the Detroit police traffic safety campaign; and a birthday party for children...
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; Oddities
Downloads: 10,422
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Tomorrow's Drivers - Handy (Jam) Organization
Socialization through driver education begins at a tender age in Phoenix.
Keywords: Car culture: Children; Automobiles: Advertising; Phoenix, Arizona
Downloads: 10,836
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Wonderful New World of Fords, A (1960 Ford Spot) - Filmways
Ford commercial linking new compact cars to futurism and the space frontier.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Automobiles: Advertising; Futurism
Downloads: 90,823
Average rating: (22 reviews) |  |
| Sky Billboards - Handy (Jam) Organization
How skywriting works -- and the making of an aerial Chevrolet advertisement.
Keywords: Advertising: Skywriting; Aviation: Skywriting; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 13,548
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Ride for Cinderella, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.
Keywords: Animation: Advertising; Folk tales; Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 260,696
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 5, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; Agriculture: Poultry
Downloads: 4,032
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| When You Know - Handy (Jam) Organization
The parallels between safe flying and safe driving. With footage of Army Air Force cadets studying Morse Code, having their reaction time and depth perception tested, and doing classroom work.
Keywords: Aviation: Military; Automobiles: Advertising; Safety: Automotive
Downloads: 4,773
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 1, No. 3) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: heavy-duty trucks used in construction; St. Augustine, Florida, site of the oldest houses in America; old horseless carriage advertisements; a homemade streamlined house trailer in Guadalupe, California; auto interiors designed by new York jewelers; an Army convoy at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and a Chihuahua dog standing in for a radiator ornament on a moving car in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; Animals: Dogs
Downloads: 5,988
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Triumph of America (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Auto manufacturing as an expression (and motivator) of America's economic success.
Keywords: Advertising: General; Automobiles: Advertising; Free enterprise
Downloads: 6,439
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Trip, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Screen ad, in Technicolor, for the 1940 Chevrolet models.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Advertising: Screen ads; Car culture
Downloads: 11,715
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Touch of Magic, A - MPO Television Films, Inc.
General Motors 1961 Motorama film presenting new cars, appliances and futuristic ideas at their most banal.
Keywords: Futurism; Automobiles: Advertising; Houses and homes: Kitchens
Downloads: 26,549
Average rating: (19 reviews) |  |
| Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 4, No. 2) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: photographing human and automobile models; automobile brake tests on a steep San Francisco street; diamond-tipped machine tools; the Ohio River floods of 1937; and an animal circus featuring performing rats.
Keywords: Car culture: Newsreels; Automobiles: Advertising; San Francisco: Scenics: Historical
Downloads: 6,103
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Sailing Along - Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
Plymouth Division, Chrystler Corporation presents Sailing Along, produced by Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.
Keywords: Motion Pictures: Sponsored; Automobiles: Advertising; Automobiles: Engineering
Downloads: 5,121
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Roads To Romance - Handy (Jam) Organization
Travelogue, made for theatrical showing and commissioned by Cheverolet, promoting tourism by car in several areas, including Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona, San Luis Obispo and San Diego in California, and Western Michigan.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; Travelogues; Arizona; California; Michigan; Recreation
Downloads: 6,961
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the "Custom 8 Cruiser" B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 3,103
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the "Sixty" B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 3,252
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 2,876
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents the "Seventy" B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 25,700
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Defense Comes First With Oldsmobile (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles, emphasizing Oldsmobile's adaptability under wartime conditions.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 6,545
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Oldsmobile Presents Motoring's Magic Carpet Hydra-Matic B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets) - Unknown
Theatrical screen ad for one of the last pre-World War II automobiles.
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising; World War II: Industrial production; World War II: Prewar preparedness
Downloads: 4,623
Average rating: (1 review) |  |
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